Alimentary tract: Excess gastroesophageal reflux in patients with hiatus hernia is caused by mechanisms other than transient LES relaxations

Gastroenterology

Volumn 119, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1439-1446

  Van Herwaarden, Margot A ^a   Samsom, Melvin ^a   Smout, André J P M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREATHING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; ELECTRODE; ESOPHAGUS PH; FEMALE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HIATUS HERNIA; HUMAN; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER PRESSURE; MALE; MANOMETRY; PHARYNX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH; ESOPHAGUS; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE RELAXATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRESSURE; STOMACH ACID; SWALLOWING;

ADULT; DEGLUTITION; ESOPHAGOGASTRIC JUNCTION; ESOPHAGUS; FEMALE; GASTRIC ACID; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HERNIA, HIATAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE RELAXATION; PRESSURE;

EID: 0034464103     PISSN: 00165085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/gast.2000.20191     Document Type: Article

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